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Among the plethora of new vehicles at VUZ Velim test centre, the Talgo VI has now appeared, representing the trio of units that are/will be provided to Leo Express by Renfe. 

On 25 August 2025, ČD issued a tender for a “framework agreement for the supply of non-traction multiple units for long-distance transport”.

On Wednesday morning of 20 August 2025, the ComfortJet 012 was presented to the Austrian public at Wien Hbf.

On 4 August 2025 at the first time electric trains started operation at GKB in regular passenger service.

A specialist HS2 engineering team is preparing to move a 112 m long, 1,631 tonne steel structure over a section of Lawley Middleway - part of Birmingham’s ring road this August.

In January 2025, Virgin Group announced that it planned to order “a dozen high-speed trains to challenge Eurostar’s ‘monopoly’ in the Channel Tunnel”.

The Hyperloop idea still finds its supporters and entities that try to keep it alive. As at InnoTrans 2022, it was also present in Berlin in 2024.

RAILPOOL, one of Europe's leading rail vehicle leasing companies, secured a subordinated financing of 200 miliion EUR for its ongoing growth.

On 12 August 2025, Lokaltog has placed an order for ten more battery-powered FLIRT AKKU trains from Stadler, which were included as an option in the contract signed in October 2024.

As we mentioned at the beginning of July, the production of the Class 384 locomotives for ČD is underway at the München-Allach works.

On 11 August 2025, the ARF project team took over the RE-IR 101 004 unit.

On 7 August 2025, Alstom and ARF publicly revealed the design of the TRAXX Universal electric locomotive produced for the Romanian railwas.

A Talgo train is currently heading to the Czech Republic, where it will undergo tests at the VUZ Velim test centre.

Alstom has been awarded the Red Dot Award 2025 for the design of its new high-speed platform Avelia Stream Nordic X80.

In July 2025, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has begun supplying CAF with traction equipment for 60 trains (300 cars in total) in the Double-Decker New Generation (DDNG) EMUs ordered by NS.